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The Legal Office of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (hereinafter, the “AEPD”, its Spanish acronym, has issued a report (0195/2017) on a series of issues related to the impact that the full application, on 25 May 2018, of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the European ... Read More »

The Belgian government has announced plans to create a new Brussels International Business Court (BIBC) which would deal exclusively with international business disputes. The novelty lies in the fact that all proceedings and the judgments of the BIBC would be in English. The BIBC would be a one stop shop ... Read More »

A recent ruling from the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2017:4123) shows once again how important it is to involve the Works Council in a sales process and provide it with sufficient information in connection with its right to be consulted on the basis of the Works Councils Act (‘WOR’). The ... Read More »

One of the key measures of the Belgian Budget bill for 2018 is the introduction of a new tax on securities accounts for Belgian individual tax residents. Non-resident individuals and Belgian and non-Belgian resident companies are not covered by this new tax. A securities account is a special purpose bank ... Read More »

Advertising is part and parcel of our daily lives. Not just because we are exposed to it all over the place on a daily basis, but also because traders spend a lot of time reflecting on how best to market their own business. There are, however, legal boundaries in place ... Read More »

In part two of this article we focus on further aspects of new legislation introduced by the new Act No. 262/2017 Coll., on compensation for damages connected with competition law, which became effective in the Czech Republic as of 1st September 2017. Presumption of damage caused by a cartel The ... Read More »

As of 1st September 2017 the new Act No. 262/2017 Coll., on compensation for damages connected with competition law, became effective in the Czech Republic. The new Act implements the Directive 2014/104/EU1 (the implementation period elapsed on 26th December 2016!) aimed to unify fundamental principles of enforcement of compensation of ... Read More »

The Supreme Court has, by means of a section 81 Judiciary (Organization) Act [Wet op de rechterlijke organisatie – RO] decision, ruled on 27 June 2017 (implicitly) that the processing of camera images does not imply processing of “ethnicity data”. Handing over of debit card transaction images In the context ... Read More »

Having a trademark or design is essential for the proper protection of a company’s products and services. The number of companies registering a tradename or design remains large. The new fees for registering a trademark or design have recently been published. Trademark A trademark is a mark used to distinguish ... Read More »

In Elias v. Davis & Edwards, Elias, a 16-year-old high school student in the North Kansas City Missouri School District played varsity football. Edwards and Davis were coaches. In October, 2010, the two coaches decided to have a full-grown adult dress out in full football gear including helmet and padding ... Read More »

Have you ever read a brochure for a resort, college, or apartment complex and expected everything it said to be completely and totally accurate without any caveats? In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a chain skilled nursing facility is under attack for representations it made in its marketing materials. In July ... Read More »

On September 7, 2017, Equifax announced that it had experienced a cybersecurity breach impacting approximately 143 million people. It appears that the unauthorized access occurred mid-May through July 2017. If a credit report was run on you prior to, or during the breach, then your information was probably exposed by ... Read More »

Advertisements for car makes are under the continued scrutiny from the Dutch Advertising Code Committee (Reclame Code Commissie or RCC). This is important news for communication, consultancy and advertising agencies. Like the car makes, they too have to take advertising law into account continuously. Over-promising In 2015, the Dutch Advertising ... Read More »

Every day, countless purchase agreements are concluded around the world, between parties from different countries. To harmonise the rules applicable to those purchase agreements, many countries have signed up to the UN Sales Convention (CISG). There are currently 84 signatory countries, ranging from Albania to Zambia. The Netherlands and Germany ... Read More »

In part two of this article we pay attention to further changes brought by the novelization of the Employment Act, i.e. the Act No. 206/2017 Coll., by which the Act No. 435/2004 Coll., the Employment Act (“the EA”), is amended, and which became effective in the Czech Republic as of ... Read More »